Culinary utensil.



Patented Dec. 3, IBM.

' L. HARDING. CULINARY UTENSIL.

(Application filed Mar. 29, 1901.)

- (No Model.)

UNITED STATES PATENT FFlCE.

LOUISE HARDING, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

CULINARY UTENSIL.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 687,747, dated December3, 1901.

Application filed March 29,1901. Serial No. 53,395. (R odel) T all Zwhom it may concern;

Be it known that I, LOUISE HARDING, a citizen of the United States,residing at New York, in the countyof New York,State of New York, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Culinary Utensils; and Ido declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description ofthe invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which itappertains to make and use the same, reference being had to theaccompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon,which form a part of this specification.

This invention relates to new and useful improvements in a culinaryutensil, and especially to a kettle and hail holder, whereby a kettlecontaining heated substances may be readily handled and tilted to allowhot Water to drain out Without danger of the operator being burned fromthe escaping steam,

suitable'means being provided for straining the liquid as it is pouredout of the kettle, and of an extension-plate which is perforated andheld by cleats adapted to fit over the edge of the kettle.

My invention is clearly illustrated in the accompanying drawings, which,with the letters of reference marked thereon, form a part of thisapplication, and in which drawings Figure 1 is a perspective view of mydevice shown as applied to a kettle. Fig. 2 is a similar View of thedevice with extension-plate removed. Fig. 3 is a detail view showihg thetwo handles held together. Fig. 4 is a front elevation. Fig. 5 is across-sectional view taken on line 5 5, Fig. 8. Fig. 6 is a top planview of the two plates. Fig. 7 is an edge View of the holder withextension-plate removed. Fig. 8 is a top view of holder withextensionplate removed.

Reference now being had to the details of the drawings by letter,Arepresents a kettle with circular outlined marginal edge and providedwith a bail B.

O designates a plate having strainer-perforations O therein, which aredisposed near the outer circular outlined edge of said plate.

The inner edge of said plate is bent at right angles, as at D, and isnotched, as at E, and provided with two, apertures F F, the lowermarginal edges of which are in a plane with the upper surface of saidplate.

Gdesignates a wire which is bent upon itself to form a handle G, theshank portion of said handle being passed through 'theapertures F F,resting on the upper surface of said plate, and have their angled ends 9passed through apertures in the plate at slight distances in from thecurved marginal edge of the plate. These angled ends are designed whenthe device is applied to a kettle or other receptacle to form lugs,which engage the inner wall of the kettle or receptacle near its upperedge, while the curved edge of the plate is designed to extend over theedge of the kettle or receptacle. At the points where said angled endsof the handle pass through the aperture in said plate I prefer tosecurely hold the ends in the aperture by soldering or other suitablefastening means. On the upper surface of the plate are fastened theapertured ears K, in which the angled ends of the wire M are journaled,thus forming a bail. Said wire M is bent upon itself, forming a loop M,which when the two handles are swung together register with each other.The straight shank portions of the wire M from the loop to the plate areheld in contact with each other by means of a notched strip of metal N,made of tin or other suitable material, which is bent upon itselflongitudinally, and the edges of said strip are tubulated and embracesaid shank portions of the wire M, as shown, the notched portion of saidstrip being at right angles to the fiat surface of the plate. Thisnotched strip N is provided to receive and 'hold the handle B of thebucket or receptacle A. The end of the strip N when the two handles areheld together is adjacent to the notched right-angled edge of the plate,and the wire M at this point rests in said notch, and the shank portionsof said wire are outwardly bent to locations adjacent to said ears.

The angled ends of the wire M each have secured thereto a cam R, whichwhen the handle formed out of the wire M is raised so as to engage thehail of the kettle engage theupper edges of the wire G, and as thehandle or loop M pushes the bail forward or away from the operator, whoholds the two bails of the holder, one in each hand, the

top of the kettle, and the latter and tilting device may be easilyoperated together.

The expansion-plate S is provided with pins S, Which extend throughslots 0 in the plate 0. This perforated plate S is held by frictionalcontact to the plate 0 bymeans of cleats T. This plate S, which hasperforations registering with perforations in the plate 0, may be pushedforward as an extension to fit a smaller bucket or kettle, and when theextension-plate is not in use it may be pushed back over the plate, saidslots 0 in the plate 0 being provided to receive the pins S. In

order to operate the slide-plate S, the handle S is provided, wherebysaid plate may be pushed down so that the pins S will contact withthe-inner face of the receptacle.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim to be new, and desireto seen re by Letters Patent, is-

A kettle holding and tilting utensil, consisting of the plate C, havingslots C therein, the stationary handle secured to the upper facethereof, the pivoted handle with bailengaging notches thereon, cleats Tsecured to said plate and passing underneath the shank portions of saidstationary handle, a sliding perforated extension-plate S with handlethereon, said plate adapted to be held frictionally at differentlocations by said cleats, pins S projecting from the bottom of saidextension-plate, and adapted to enter slots C in the edge of the platewhen the extension-plate is pushed back, as set forth.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature 35 in the presence of twoWitnesses.

LOUISE HARDING. Witnesses:

J. B. SLATTERY, GEO. W. KENDELL.

